Day: June 11, 2013

The wife of Japan`s pro-business Prime Minister Shinzo Abe does not like nuclear power and would rather ask her husband`s government did not try to export it. via I am `anti-nuclear`, says Japan`s First Lady Akie Abe.

TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh agreed on Wednesday to speed up talks on a deal to allow Japan to export nuclear plants and to strengthen security cooperation as both sides keep a wary eye on…

The nuclear energy sector has taken a blow now that Southern California Edisonhas decided to permanently close its troubled nuclear plant. Safety is a key concern. But so is honesty and transparency. SAN CLEMENTE, CA – MARCH 15: Ocean waves come ashore…

With the CBI yet to get a sanction from the Department of Atomic Energy for probe into the alleged scam in ilmenite sales at the Chavara unit of Indian Rare Earths Ltd (IRE), a PIL was filed before the Kerala High Court…

Sipri sees increase in nuclear proliferation, reduction in global peacekeeping. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIRPI) has observed a global reduction in the number of peacekeepers and an increase in the proliferation of nuclear weapons in some regions of the world,…

Visions of a Nuclear Free World by KARL GROSSMAN ……………. “That nuclear power is a threat to life is not a new issue—it’s been central to the battle against nuclear power even before the first commercial nuclear plant in the U.S., the…

22 ‘pointless’ US nuclear bombs at Dutch airbase A Dutch airbase houses 22 tactical nuclear bombs belonging to the United States as part of a Cold War military arsenal described by the country’s former Prime Minister as “absolutely pointless”. Courtesy: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/10110527/22-pointless-US-nuclear-bombs-at-Dutch-airbase.html

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